April 8, 1980

MISGAV AM, Israel, April 7 Israeli troops stormed a children's dormitory on this kibbutz today, killing five Palestinian terrorists who had taken a group of children hostage in a bid for the release of guerrillas from Israeli prisons.

Stock prices fell sharply yesterday in quiet trading amid signs of a slowing economy while inflation remains at a high level. Adding to the market's weakness late in the session was President Carter's announcement that the United States was breaking diplomatic relations with Iran.

A major issue, as important as wages in some ways, has arisen in the 1980 transit negotiations: the argument over what the Metropolitan Transportation Authority generally calls "productivity demands" and what the Transport Workers...

The traffic flow in New York City started off smoothly yesterday, despite fears that the end of most holiday closings and the beginning of a new workweek would lead to heavy congestion because of the transit strike. But in the afternoon, early departures were continuing to create some traffic jams.

AT least a quarter of the world's population of giant pandas appears to have perished as a result of a quirk of nature the spontane ous, genetically programmed dying-out of the two species of bamboo that provide the major portion of the animal's diet.